Delineating the tremendous growth in this area, the Handbook of Approximation Algorithms
and Metaheuristics covers fundamental, theoretical topics as well as advanced, practical …

Over the past decade, system-on-chip (SoC) designs have evolved to address the ever
increasing complexity of applications, fueled by the era of digital convergence …

We study scaling in the context of typical block-level wiring distributions, and identify its
impact on the design process. In particular, we study the implications of exponentially …

In this paper, we present our quantitative studies of the impact of 3D IC design on repeater
usage. The repeater usage is estimated by the interconnect optimizer IPEM in the post …

Technology is making the integration of a large number of processors on the same silicon
die technically feasible. These multi-processor systems-on-chip (MP-SoC) can provide a …

This paper gives an overview of state-of-the-art regarding the network-on-chip (NoC)
proposals. NoC paradigm replaces dedicated, design-specific wires with scalable, general …

The rapid growth of the electrical modeling and analysis of the interconnect structure, both at
the electronic chip and package level, can be attributed to the increasing importance of the …

Automatic circuit placement has received renewed interest recently given the rapid increase
of circuit complexity, increase of interconnect delay, and potential sub-optimality of existing …

Coupling effects between on-chip interconnects must be addressed in ultra deep submicron
VLSI and system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. A new low-power bus encoding scheme is …

Placement is an important step in the overall IC design process in DSM technologies, as it
defines the on-chip interconnects, which have become the bottleneck in determining circuit …